Apparatus for packing cut sugar



(No Model.)

W. BAUR & J.- V. V. BOORAEM. APPARATUS FOR PACKING GUT SUGAR.

No.416,319. A Patented De0.3, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\VILHELM BAUR AND J OI-IN V. V. BOORAEM, OF BROOKLYN, NEIV YORK.

APPARATUS FOR PACKING CUT SUGAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,319, dated December 3, 1889.

Application filed January 18, 1886- Serial No. 188,830. (No model.)

To all whom it 12mg concern.-

Be it known that we, WILHELM BAUR and JOHN V. V. BOORAEM, both of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State Of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Apparatus for Packing Cut Sugar, of which the following is a specification.

' Our invention may be employed in packing sugar cut in any desired shape or form in boxes, but is more particularly intended for packing tablet or domino sugar, such as may be produced by the cutting-machine shown in our United States Letters Patent No. 349,027, dated September 14, 1886, and by means of a tray or plate such as is shown in another United States patent, No. 349,028, dated September 14, 1886.

In carrying out our invention we make a rectangular packing -box complete, except that the top and one end are omitted, and this box is of such width that the tray for handling the sugar will snugly fit between its sides. The layers of cut sugar are introduced by means of the tray one above another in the box, the tray being withdrawn so as to leave each layer of sugar superposed upon the one below it in the box. We employ a base piece or plate which maybe laid upon a bench or suitable support, and which has at the back and sides a raised rim receiving and holding the box laterally in place. At the front and open end of the box is averticallyadjustable gage-plate which is of about the same width as the box and is secured by a clamping-screw to the base-plate. As the layers of sugar are placed one after another in the box, this gage-plate is raised step by step, so as to temporarily close the open front of the box as fast as it is filled with sugar. After the box has been so filled the top is first nailed down, and then the base-plate with the superposed box, the end of which is still closed by the gage-plate, is raised and turned into an upright position, so as to bring the open end uppermost, and the gage-plate is then removed and the end of the box nailed in. The base-plate is provided with suitable handles whereby it may be raised, as described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a sectional View of our improved apparatus. Fig. 2 is an end or front view thereof, and Fig. 3 is a plan thereof.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in the several figures.

The box A, in which the sugar is to be packed, is not complete, it having only a bottom a, sides (1/, and a back end a the top and front end of the box being left open. In packing sugar within this box we employ a tray B, such as is shown in our patent, No. 349,028, above referred to. This tray is open at the front end I) and has at the sides and back a raised rim 0. It has or may have at the back a handle 0, with which one hand may engage, and it has a bail O riveted or otherwise fixed to the sides at c at a point which is nearer the front than the back of the tray. This tray is of such width that it may slide snugly into and out of the box through the open front end thereof. To place it in position for packing, the box is placed upon a base-plate D, which may rest upon a bench or table E. This base-plate has at the back end and sides a raised rim d, within which the box fits and by which it is held against lateral displacement. The base-plate is provided at the front open end of the box with a gage-plate F, which, as here represented, is secured by a clampingscrewf to a bracket (1, secured to and forming a part of the baseplate D. The gage-plate F is slotted at f, so that it may slide upward and downward 011 the clamping-screw f, and may be secured in any vertical position by tightening said screw. The base-plate is also provided with handles (1 for a purpose hereinafter'described.

\Vhen a layer of sugar S is in the tray 13, it is supported in the back of the tray by a weight g, and at the front of the tray is an L-shaped evening plate or weight g both of which are described in our patent, No. 349,028, above referred to. When the tray with a layer of sugar is slid into the box A, as shown in the drawings, the evening plate or weight g is first removed, and by the weight g the sugar is held in place while the tray is pulled outward, leaving the layer of sugar in proper position in the box. As fast as the filling of the box thus progresses the gage-plate F is raised step by step, so as to temporarily close the front open end of the box and prevent the sugarfrom falling outward. After the box has been so filled to the top the top is nailed on, and, the front open end being still closed by the plate F, the base-plate is raised by the handles (Z into a vertical position, so that the open end of the box will be uppermost. The end of the box is then nailed on, completing the box. The gage-plate F is shifted to its lowermost position relatively to the base-plate I), and a new box is placed on the horizontal base-plate to be filled and closed as above described.

It is veryimportant that the layers of sugar, as they are introduced separately into the incomplete box, should be supported on plates, which are withdrawn while the sugar is held against movement with them, because by the plates any abrasion of the superposed layers of sugar will be prevented, and the sugar of the layer being introduced will not be rubbed or chipped off by contact with the layer next below. It is also desirable to have the box destitute of the end or side wall and top, because then the plates, with the layers of sugar upon them, may be introduced laterally to the place which they will retain in the box, and there will be no such abrasion of the sugar as takes place when the sugar is placed upon a follower movable vertically within an incomplete box having four walls, but neither top nor bottom, and which, with the sugar upon it, is lowered step by step within the incomplete box as the packing process progresses.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In an apparatus for packing cut sugar,

the combination, with a movable base-plate having a raised rim (1 at the back and sides for retaining a box in place thereon, of a vertically-adj ustable gage-plate at the front of the base-plate for temporarily closing the end of the box as the filling progresses, substantially as herein described.

2. The combination, with the base-plate D, having a raised rim d at the back and sides and handles d at the front, whereby it may be raised to a vertical position, of the vertically-adjustable gage-plate F and a clamping-screw for holding it in position, substantially as herein described.

3. The combination, with a base-plate having a raised rim (1 at the back and sides and a box open at the front and top and held in place on the base-plate, of a vertically-adjustable gage-plate for temporarily closing the front of the box as the filling progresses and a tray B, open at the front and having a raised rim at the sides and back and of a width to enter snugly between the sides of the box, substantially as herein described.

\VILHELM BAUR. J. V. V. BOORAEM. Witnesses to the signature of Wilhelm Baur:

C. BORNGRAEBER, GEoRe BENCHELT. Witnesses to the signature of J. V. V. Booraem:

FREDK. HAYNES, MINERT LINDEMAN. 

